Improvement in toys



A. FULLER.'

. Toys. l

No.155,575. Patented0ct.`6,1a74.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW FULLER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHTTOCHARLES F. HAGER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,575, dated October6, 1874 application tiled i May 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW FULLER, ofBuffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented acertain Improvement in Revolving Whistles, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention relates to improvements in whistling-wheels, the nature ofwhich will be apart, with two holes, `B B, through which is passed anendless cord,"C. `D D are a series of whistles arranged around thecircumference of wheel A. They consist of the hollow cylinder E, and areclosed by means of caps F.

The cylinder E is provided with a slit, G,

ruiming longitudinally or parallel with the cylinder E. Said slit Gr,constituting` the mouth of the whistle, is arranged at or about at anangle of forty-tive degrees with the center line of the cylinder, andfaces the direction of revolution of the wheel A. The cylinders E areconnected to the Wheel A in the center in order that the wheel A andwhistles E, when revolving, may be fully balanced.

The device, as described, is revolved by means of an endless string, G,passing through the holes E B, by taking hold of the string G with bothhands and giving a slight turn to the wheel, which should be placed inabout the middle of string C. This will partly twist the string G, and,by a slight pull on the same, cause it to untwist again, and also torevolve the wheel A. The centrifugal force thus imparted to the wheel Awill twist the string C again in the opposite direction; and, if thisalternate pulling and slacking up of string C is continued, the wheel Awill soon be so,

swiftly rotated as to cause the whistles to sound, and thus produce apeculiar piercing sound or noise.

It will be observed that the wheel A, `when rotated in the mannerdescribed, revolves in two directions alternately, and that thereforethe mouths of the whistles should face one half in one, and the otherhalf in the opposite, direction; and also that, if the wheel isconstructed on a large scale and the whistles constructed in proportion,and revolved by a suitable lnotor, this invention can be successfullyused as a fog-whistle for navigation or other purposes, as the soundproduced by the swift revolutions of thefwhistles is a piercing one, andcan be heard at a great distance.

Having thus fully described my invention, I desireto secure to inyselfbyLetters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, a whistling-wheelconstructed with a series of cylindrical whistles, E, mounted centrallyon a wheel, A, such cylindrical whistles E being provided with caps Fand longitudinal slots Gr, constructed and arranged to operate as shownand described.

In witness whereof' I have hereunto set my hand.

, Witnesses: ANDREW FULLER.

MICHAEL J i STARK, LAWRENCE McDoNALD.

